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Seedheads Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | | |
Origin: Native
General Description: Evergreen. Broom-like shrub, up to 10 feet tall, freely branched.
Identification notes: Plants freely branched, broom-like; leaves sparse or absent at flowering; flower heads unisexual, borne singly on branch tips in crowded branched clusters; known by its broom-like growth form and large oval leaves which wither before flowering.
Height: 10 feet Width: 4 to 6 feet
Habitat Description: Found in gravelly or sandy streambeds, dry washes, and grasslands.
Plant Communities: Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Riparian
Elevation: 2200 - 6000 feet
Color: White or pale yellow Shape: Daisy or dandelion-like in elongated clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: Jul - Oct
Description: Flowers are borne along ends of stems of lateral branches in crowded, short-branched clusters. Male and female on separate plants. Male flowers are pale yellow, 24 to 33 per flower head, female flowers are white, 15 to 30 per flower head.
Leaf Color: Green Type: Simple Shape: Round or oval Margin: Toothed Attachment: Alternate Hairs: N
Description: Smooth leaves are 1 to 1-1/4 inches long with tapered bases. The margins are irregularly toothed.
Color: Light brown Type: Capsule Description: Fruit is cylindric, less than 1/2 inch long, with 5 to 10 ribs.
Bark Color: Green Bark Texture (Mature): Smooth Bark and Branch Description: Stems are erect, green, smooth, and often leafless at flowering time.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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